A student notes question tests whether you can build a sentence that meets the student’s goal. Read that goal first, then spell out what the sentence needs, including both subjects and what the sentence must highlight about each. For a goal about distinct achievements, ask what each subject accomplished that sets it apart. Check the sentence’s focus, then match its facts to the notes. Mentioning a relevant detail isn’t enough if the sentence spends its words doing a different job.
Hints
- Hint 1
Read the student’s goal and name what it asks you to highlight about each probe. Which words narrow the kind of fact the sentence needs?
- Hint 2
Look through the notes for what makes each probe’s achievement distinct. Which words signal why an accomplishment stands out?
- Hint 3
Separate mentioning a fact from highlighting it. Ask which facts get the sentence’s main attention and which serve as background.
Step-by-step
Match the goal and the focus
Step 1Find what the sentence needs
Start with highlights the distinct achievements of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. What does that ask us to say about each probe? The sentence should give each probe its own accomplishment, with the two set beside each other. The goal asks what sets each probe apart, rather than for general facts about the missions.
- Step 2
Set aside sentences with a different focus
Which versions miss the goal of distinct achievements? The version about identical Golden Records gives a shared feature. The version saying the probes have traveled farther than any other spacecraft offers a broad distance claim and names only Voyager 2’s interstellar entry. Neither states a distinct achievement for each probe.
- Step 3
Distinguish mention from emphasis
What makes the achievements distinct in the notes? Voyager 1 was first to cross into interstellar space, while Voyager 2 alone has conducted close-range studies of Uranus and Neptune. The version with Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft mentions both achievements, so facts alone don’t settle the choice. Its opening stresses the shared Golden Records, and Voyager 1’s achievement comes at the end as part of six years after, so Voyager 1’s achievement gets less attention than Voyager 2’s flybys.
- Step 4
Check the direct comparison
The version with whereas Voyager 2 makes two main points: Voyager 1 was first into interstellar space, and Voyager 2 alone studied Uranus and Neptune up close. Its six years later fits the note in 2018, six years after Voyager 1, so the timing is accurate too. Both probes’ distinct achievements get direct attention. Choice C.